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A blooming shame
ADSL South Africa (Broadband South
Africa), 23 June 2008
In
what can be described as a blooming shame, Telkom has managed to stop the Competition Commission (CC) from referring
Telkom’s anti-competitive dispute with the VANs (SA Value Added Service Providers) to the Competition
Tribunal.
In what has come as a blow to justice in South Africa, Presiding
judge RG Claasen ruled in the Pretoria High Court that the CC should not be allowed to refer the matter between
Telkom and the VANs to the Competition Tribunal. This must be the reason why Claasen didn’t have the guts to read
the reasons for his judgement aloud in Court, but rather chosen to hand out the document to the legal council of
both the CC and Telkom. Furthermore, Claasen instructed the CC, and in fact tax payers, to pay Telkom’s legal
costs.
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